Garment-buckle.



No. 887,089 I PATENTED MAY 12, 1908.

M. M. GRAHAM.

GARMENT BUCKLE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 23,1907.

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MARSHALL M. GRAHAM, OF BUTTE, MONTANA.

GARMENT-BUCKLE Specification of Letters Patent,

Patented May 12, 1908.

Application filed May 23, 1907. Serial No. 375,335.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARSHALL M. GRAHAM, a citizen of the United States,residing at Butte, in the county of Silverbow and State of Montana, haveinvented a new and useful Garment-Buckle, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to improvements in buckles, and more especiallyto that class used for fastening various parts of wearing apparel, andit has for its object to provide an improved buckle of this characterthat is capable of effectually locking the parts of an article ofwearing apparel in secured relation, so that accidental disengagementcannot occur, although the device may be easily manipulated, the bucklebeing so constructed that it is composed of few parts that may becheaply manufactured and are not liable to become broken.

To these and other ends, the invention comprises the various novelfeatures of construction and combination and arrangement of parts, whichwill be hereinafter more fully described and pointed out particularly inthe appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings :-Figure 1 is a front elevation of a buckleconstructed in accordance with the present invention. Fig. 2 is a viewsimilar to Fig. 1 showing one of the fastening members unlocked anddetached. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the body of the buckle showing thelocking plate removed. Fig. 4 represents a section on the line 44 ofFig. 2, on an enlarged scale.

Corresponding parts in the several figures are indicated throughout bysimilar characters of reference.

The buckle shown in the present embodiment of the invention comprises abody 1 which may be of any desired outline and ornamented in difierentways, it being pro vided with a central circular recess 2 to receive acircular locking plate 3, the exposed face of the latter preferablylying flush with the surrounding edges of the body portion in order toavoid sharp edges that would be liable to catch on the garments. Thelocking plate is revolubly connected to the body portion of the buckleby a rivet or other suitable means 4, a projection 5 extending beyondthe face of the locking plate and providing a handle by means of whichthe plate may be rotated.

The body portion is provided with one or more slots to receiveappropriately shaped projections on the fastening members, twodiametrically opposed pairs of slots, 6 and 7, being shown in thepresent instance whereby both ends of the part to be secured may beattached to and detached from the buckle, although it will beunderstood, of course, that a single slot or pair of slots may beemployed so that one end only is detachable, the other end of the partto be secured. being permanently connected to the buckle. These slotsare of a keyhole form, that is to say, they are each provided with arelatively large opening arranged toward the center of the plate or bodyportion, the portions of the slots extending toward the edges of thebody portion being reduced or narrowed, the reduced portions of theslots extending beyond the recess.

The attaching members, which are secured to the opposite ends of theparts to be fastened, are composed, in the present instance, ofperforated plates 8 and 9 which are stitched,- or otherwise secured, tothe parts to be fastened, these plates having projections 10 and 11attached thereto and having heads adapted to pass through the enlargedportions of the slots in the body of the buckle, narrowed, or reducedportions, of the projections operating in the reduced portions of theslots. The locking plate has a pair of slots 12 which correspond inshape to those in the body of the buckle, and when the locking plate isturned into a given position, the slots thereof will register orcoincide with those of the body portion of the buckle, permitting theheaded projections on the respective attach ing member to be applied andremoved, as shown in Fig. 2, whereas, when the slots of the lockingplate occupy a position intermediate the slots of the body portion, theheaded projections on the attaching members will be held from movementin their respective slots and hence they willbe locked in cooperativerelation with the buckle. If so desired, a hook 14 may be arranged onthe upper or lower edge of the body portion of the buckle whereby thelatter may serve to secure other portions of the wearing apparel inplace.

A buckle constructed in accordance with the present invention may bemade and sold cheaply, and in use it is capable of being easily operatedto positively lock or unlock the parts to be secured, the revolublelocking plate cooperating with the projections to prevent movementthereof toward the en larged ends of the slots that would permit tocooperate with the sai their unlocking, the enlarged portions of theslots being preferably arranged inwardly or toward the center of thebuckle as it facilitates the application of the headed projections, thetension of the garment or other part to which they are ap lied servingto draw them into the reducer portions of the slots.

What is claimed is 1. A buckle comprising a body portion, and a memberadapted to be detachably connected thereto, one of the parts having aheaded projection thereon, and the other part having a slot providedwith an enlarged portion to receive the head of the projection, and areduced portion to receive a narrower portion of the projection, and arevoluble locking plate having its eriphery arranged (l projection toconfine it within the said slot and rovided with a slot corresponding toand a apted to register with that first mentioned.

2. A buckle comprising a body portion having diametrically opposed pairsof slots formed therein each of which is enlarged toward one end andreduced toward the opposite end, an attaching member having a ssiosotaching portions having headed projections thereon adapted to cooperatewith the respective slots of the body ortion, and a circular lockingplate pivote on the body porcular recess of the body portion and havingaslot therein correspondlng to and. adapted to register with the slot inthe body portion.

5. A buckle comprising a body portion provided with pairs ofdiametrically opposed slots enlarged at their inner ends, and attachingmembers having pairs of headed projections adapted to 006 erate with therespective pairs of slots, an a locking plate revolubly mounted on thebody ortion and having a pair of slots correspon ing to and adapted toregister with either pair of slots in the body portion.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

MARSHALL M. GRAHAM.

Witnesses:

J. S. PLAOKETT, 4 FREDERICK A. PANK.

